Dave Hill is a journalist and novelist who has been a frequent Guardian contributor for most of the past 25 years.

A regular at Cif, he has specialised in London's politics since the beginning of the 2008 mayoral election campaign. He also makes podcasts and videos about London for the Guardian and was named 2009 UK Press Gazette Digital Journalist of the Year for his London blog. He occasionally writes for the newspaper too.

Dave is reliably informed that Boris Johnson once described him as being "always right", despite his sometimes unfavourable opinions of the capital's first Tory mayor. Dave lives near Clapton Pond in Hackney with his wife and those of his six children who have yet to fly the nest.